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The Inquiry: Has AI developed consciousness?

Has AI developed consciousness?

07/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - The Inquiry, Has AI developed consciousness?

After claims a chatbot is aware we ask: can Artificial Intelligence become sentient?

A Google engineer claims an AI chatbot is sentient but his company says there's no evidence to support this.  We ask: has Artificial Intelligence developed consciousness?

A software engineer called Blake Lemoine has been suspended from Google after claiming an AI chatbot called LaMDA is a person with wishes and rights that should be respected. 

He says the chatbot wants to be seen as a google employee, and not as a product. He also calls it his friend.

Google says it's reviewed his concerns and the evidence does not support his claims. 

But what exactly is Artificial Intelligence? How does LaMDA work - and is AI capable of felt experience?

On the Inquiry this week, Charmaine Cozier asks, has AI developed consciousness?

Presenter: Charmaine Cozier 
Produced by: Ravi Naik and Christopher Blake 
Editor: Tara McDermott
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards    
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown

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